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Category Archives: Technology Transfer
Which side of the door?
Why do universities claim faculty inventions rather than offer to accept them? To put an edge on it, the difference between a workplace and a prison is which side of the door the lock is on.
Posted in IP, Technology Transfer
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The Policy and the Damage Done
Here is a state law pertaining to employer claims to employee inventions: Sec. 2. Employee rights to inventions ‑ conditions). (1) A provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign or offer to assign any of … Continue reading
Posted in IP, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, drafting, invention, ownership, state invention law, university
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On the warfarin path, part 2
The first essay in this series is here. Let’s turn now in our warfarin narratives to a few more developed accounts, including Karl Paul Link’s own published account. [I have corrected a biographical error–Prof. Link’s Ph.D. was from Wisconsin, not … Continue reading
Creepiness is next to greediness
It is true that some criticisms of university technology transfer offices are misdirected. Criticism, however, is not merely a sign of ill will or ignorance or organized special interest lulz of everything good. Criticism also serves the role of debate … Continue reading
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Opening up subject invention reporting
In the last post, I suggested a new reporting for subject inventions. Nothing like this presently exists. The ubiquitous university licensing survey aggregates information and therefore becomes useless for tracking subject inventions. And misleading.
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Metrics, Technology Transfer
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On the warfarin path
We frame our expectations and our insights by the stories we tell. This is true as well of the stories of innovation. How does something new come into the world and reshape things? We have two primary narratives–bane and boon–one, … Continue reading
Posted in IP, Social Science, Technology Transfer
Tagged innovation, Link, narrative, WARF, warfarin
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Dealing with university patent accumulation
A while ago I worked through the idea of patent accumulation as a problem for economic development. See What Happens Here Is Excluded Here. The gist is, if one accumulates research patents primarily in one’s own jurisdiction and these go … Continue reading
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Does Bayh-Dole require a patent policy?
Here is a bit (see paragraph 9) from a major US university policy on treatment of inventions under Bayh-Dole: Incumbent upon members of the University community who apply for and receive federal funding to support research or who use federal … Continue reading
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The Moment In-Between
Here’s a neat essay by Chris Newfield that looks at the elements of innovation that underlie the development of Google from a snatch in a dream to becoming a global information and advertising silverback. One of the things that has … Continue reading
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Tagged in-between, later reason, rush the trough
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Two Yesses
The idea of innovation is complicated. Benoît Godin has shown in a series of articles that innovation until the last hundred years or so has been a derogatory term. No one wanted to be called an innovator. Then in science, … Continue reading
Posted in Social Science, Technology Transfer
Tagged delight, Godin, innovation, technology transfer, yes
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